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Texas123 Look at that huge roof area, couldn’t they cover it with solar? And put a Tesla mega pack battery in? It would reduce noise and offset energy needs and panels last basically forever with little maintenance. Reply
SomeoneElse23 Texas123 said: Look at that huge roof area, couldn’t they cover it with solar? And put a Tesla mega pack battery in? It would reduce noise and offset energy needs and panels last basically forever with little maintenance. One dirty little secret about "green energy" is it's not very efficient in most places across the country. Reply
Vanderlindemedia It goes to say, such DC's are build with a cost of operation in mind, and discarded after so many years of use. They would not even consider doing so. I can't wrap my mind around water consumption to cool servers these days. What happened with closed loops ? We're using fresh water now to cool servers and pollute everything with it. What are we doing? Government needs to step in and break these DC's down. Reply
cvzalez SomeoneElse23 said: One dirty little secret about "green energy" is it's not very efficient in most places across the country. I think you were greenwashed because there's not a tiny of green in you, Solar panels are in deed very efficient, it won't work over night without batteries but certainly would be extremely useful during daytime. Reply
COLGeek Texas123 said: Look at that huge roof area, couldn’t they cover it with solar? And put a Tesla mega pack battery in? It would reduce noise and offset energy needs and panels last basically forever with little maintenance. I have often thought the same flying into airports all around the world, where often you see miles of large flat roofs that could host solar systems. Some places do better than others, but those roofs could host FAR more than they do. Solar power is in addition to all other sources of power. It isn't an either/or scenario, rather it is an "and" one, where complimentary systems feed the need. For companies, it would seem a no-brainer to lower operating costs. Reply
Bigshrimp We absolutely could use more solar and wind. We are destroying the planet with the explosive use of fossil fuels, causing massive shifts in the climate and it's getting much worse as we continue to use more and not less of fossil fuels. It's blatant ecological destruction because we need more data centers and more energy to power them without any concern at all for our environment. It makes no sense at all and is wasteful and thoughtless in its execution. Reply
USAFRet COLGeek said: I have often thought the same flying into airports all around the world, where often you see miles of large flat roofs that could host solar systems. Some places do better than others, but those roofs could host FAR more than they do. Solar power is in addition to all other sources of power. It isn't an either/or scenario, rather it is an "and" one, where complimentary systems feed the need. For companies, it would seem a no-brainer to lower operating costs. To be fair, most of those were designed and built before solar was economically viable. Retrofitting is a PITA. Of course, any NEW construction really needs to consider the solar aspect as part of the design up front. Reply
COLGeek USAFRet said: To be fair, most of those were designed and built before solar was economically viable. Retrofitting is a PITA. Of course, any NEW construction really needs to consider the solar aspect as part of the design up front. Good points. Both are true. Reply
96BIA Admin said: The community surrounding the DataOne data center in Vineland, New Jersey, are complaining about the Microsoft-linked project. The company's deployment of several unpermitted gas turbines is just one of the issues that has been hounding the project, with potential water issues also surfacing in recent weeks. Microsoft-backed AI data center faces backlash over 62 unpermitted gas turbines and 1.5M-gallon LNG tank — issues with $19.4B facility range from i… : Read more First, if the noise complaints happened a few months after construction began it wasn't from dozens of gas turbines running constantly. The timeline doesn't match at all, LOL. Even more blantly, uninformed bias: The estimates of this "evil data center" using a stunning 20 million gallons of water per year, leaves out that a typical 18-hole golf course uses between 90 and 130 million gallons of water annually!! Be against DCs all you want, but publishing biased garbage and not even checking facts is either journalistic malpractice or simply poor propaganda. Reply
USAFRet 96BIA said: First, if the noise complaints happened a few months after construction began it wasn't from dozens of gas turbines running constantly. The timeline doesn't match at all, LOL. Did the turbines spin up on day one? We do not know. Please don't make assumptions. Reply
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